High Score Competition #196: Diver Boy

[yamatetsu]

High Score Competition Rules and Scoreboard

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Game Name : Diver Boy
ROM Name  =  diverboy
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Settings:
   default : Lives -3 / Difficulty -Normal

Controls:   
    8 way joystick, 'dive' button



No wiki, no KLOV entries.


Dive into the ocean, collect things, avoid enemies. Bonus points for collecting pearls, possibly an extra life for collecting letters to build 'diverboy' (don't know about that, you have to get SOMETHING for it).


Final scores.

     WakiMiko      293,200

     2nd          yamatetsu     187,250

     3rd           acvieluf          21,200


Last day: Sunday, July 24 2016 midnight Pacific
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- Quest for the Bronze Joystick! The most successful competitor of each calendar year will possess & display the BYOAC Bronze Joystick Trophy. See this thread for details: The BYOAC Bronze Joystick.
Happy Gaming!

[yamatetsu]

Warning ! I found this on a gaming site :

ROM: DiverBoy
Settings: Lives: 3
Difficulty: Normal
Free Play: Off

Special Rules: Sound MUST be turned Off or the game can abruptly end on it's own accord.

[yamatetsu]

I'll start with a measly 48,000. I'm going to call myself 'AAA' on this one, entering YAM is too tedious.

[yamatetsu]

62,900. When diving down, you can use 'dive' to immediately go up. When ascending, you can use 'dive' to slow the ascent.

[acvieluf]

I haven't gotten any half decent scores, but in the few minutes i've played, i realized that it's basically an upside down Bomb Jack (i LOVE that game).  Getting one clam at a time, the open one, produces a treasure for extra points.  Getting enough of them warrants an end of stage bonus score.  Pretty cool.

[yamatetsu]

Getting one clam at a time, the open one, produces a treasure for extra points.  Getting enough of them warrants an end of stage bonus score.  Pretty cool.

Bonus points for collecting pearls, possibly an extra life for collecting letters to build 'diverboy' (don't know about that, you have to get SOMETHING for it).

I think you have to collect 25 pearls or more to get the super bonus. That gets tricky very fast.

On a side note : Defeating the boss doesn't give you anything at all. No points, no extra, no nothing. Outrageous !

115,500.

[WakiMiko]

Lost 2 lives against the stupid boss 

Submarine item is OP

142,200




BTW, I'm playing with sound, no problems so far. There isn't even a DIP switch to turn it off anyway. Surely muting my computer won't make a difference.

[yamatetsu]

I can't find it anymore, but I remember having read that someone's game crashed when he had 200k+ points. As for turning off the sound, in the options under 'Slider Control' I set the
Speaker ':mono:' OKI6295 ':oki' Volume to 0.00. The Master Volume goes to -32dB. I don't know whether that helps, but it sure can't hurt.

[yamatetsu]

168,450.

[WakiMiko]

Broke 200k with sound, no crashes

[Titchgamer]

I figured ide give this a shot.
Though i obv need to spend more time playing than building coz I only got 46,550 lol

Fun game though

[WakiMiko]

GIANT ENEMY CRAB

293,200

[yamatetsu]

187,850. How the heck can you make soo many points ? I have just beaten the crab, too. Granted, I have not bothered to collect all the pearls, but IMHO that can't make a difference of 100k. The only thing that comes to mind would be ... Say, when you get the submarine extra, does it have a timer or can you blast away until the stage timer runs out ?

[WakiMiko]

I try to collect as many pearls as possible. An "all pearls" level is worth 6750 points from the super bonus alone (27*250). Plus you get about 150 points per clam instead of just 50. With the sub item, there is just enough time to kill each enemy in the level twice if you remember the spawn points.

[yamatetsu]

That's what I do, too ... Except for collecting all the pearls, which I can't be bothered to do. So, until someone shows up to beat my score, I won't play this any more.
On a side note, I had a glitch once (and only once), that somehow turned the submarine's timer off so I could blast away until the stage timer kicked in. I don't know how many points I exactly got, but it must have been at least 40-70k. That's why I asked about the timer.

[WakiMiko]

I see. Unfortunately I never had that bug 

On some levels however the submarine item spawns twice. I think this is quite a fun game. You have to figure out the best route through each level and remember it. The pearls always open in the same order, but it matters which clam you collect first as it can make some pearls impossible to reach without collecting a closed clam first.

[acvieluf]

I played a bunch for the one day I had, had some piddly score, and am out of town the rest of the week, now. Bummer too, I liked this games.

Sent from my Atari 2600

[yamatetsu]

I see. Unfortunately I never had that bug 

On some levels however the submarine item spawns twice. I think this is quite a fun game. You have to figure out the best route through each level and remember it. The pearls always open in the same order, but it matters which clam you collect first as it can make some pearls impossible to reach without collecting a closed clam first.

I have figured out all this, too, but I simply have no motivation whatsoever to follow a strict pearl-collecting route. I guess right now I'm having more fun building my cab than playing this.

[acvieluf]

Ok, so i suck so far, but since only two have posted a score, here you go:

21,200

[yamatetsu]

Final scores.

     WakiMiko      293,200

     2nd          yamatetsu     187,250

     3rd           acvieluf          21,200


The scoreboard.



Soo, after a hard fought bout, acvieluf gets to choose the next one.

[acvieluf]

Soo, after a hard fought bout, acvieluf gets to choose the next one.

Ha, and here I thought that my measly score would entice someone else to jump in and take it...

Ok, well I'll have another game later today.

[ninjabadger]

Bah. Missed out on this one.

Back in the country now and hoping for a good game :-)

Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk

[Titchgamer]

Soo, after a hard fought bout, acvieluf gets to choose the next one.

Ha, and here I thought that my measly score would entice someone else to jump in and take it...

Ok, well I'll have another game later today.

I prob shud of posted this the other day when I got it LOL

[acvieluf]

So i went and did it.  My admitted shallow knowledge of arcade games, combined with the desire to play something nostalgic for us *slightly* younger bucks.  Here you go:  http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,151355.0.html

FIGHT AND GO RIGHT BABY!